European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fifteen year old Barbara june Stewart who had never fired takes tips from Veteran Mother who often Hunts with husband. On the Range now cold and a driving wind did t keep the women at Home. They of bundled up loaded in jeeps in the Early morning Coldi and drove out to the Range. They Felt they were modern pioneers the first women in the occupation zone to take to the carbine Range. They were the first of More than two Hundred american dependents to enrol in the one Day carbine familiarization course which has been organized for them at Neu Biberg a base near Munich.  couple of them had Ever handled any kind of firearm before ? none of them was an experienced shot. Yet one mrs. Mary w. Jackson shot five Bull s eyes with her first five shots. It All started with a Neucom directive which allows base commanders to decide whether or not the men in their service will be allowed to keep  Home. Neu Biberg air base com manding officer colonel pc. T. Curly Edwinson had no objection to his men keeping firearms providing their wives knew How to use them. He wrote that into base regulation 46-3, and the women of the Community responded immediately they were perfectly willing to learn. Dependents of one Hundred and four officers and one Hundred and fifty enlisted men of Neu Biberg military .,3 air ending Snow does not hinder dependents who scored As High As eighty seven out of Hundred their first Day on the Range -. ". Weekend March vol la